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Link works for me! and Tesla is building an ecosystem, but I wonder how much of a walled garden that ecosystem will ultimately be. We may say a better example of this with Superchargers first.

In theory, Tesla could expand to 3rd party ride sharing as they would only need to expose a set of capabilities through a secure API. But this is not trivial work and does expose Tesla to extra liability as they give up some control.

To know Elon however, is to know that Tesla does want to own the whole stack and I highly anticipate that Tesla will attempt to wall off ride sharing.